Hodgins leaned close to Angela and stole several kisses, one after the other.

She pushed him back. "This really isn't the time, Jack."

"I just wanted to relive the moment, Ange."

She laughed.

"Hey, does anyone know?"

"I told Brennan."

"Really?"

"She noticed that I was wearing the same skirt two days in a row. Besides, it's only a matter of time before Booth and Cam find out." She looked back down at sheet of paper with hand-written wording on her desk. "Does this look like an 'S' or a '5' to you?"

Hodgins leaned over her shoulder. "Looks like an 'S'. Why do you say it's only a matter of time?"

"Well, besides the fact that you keep doing stuff like kissing me when we're at work? I always smell like sex any more."

"What?" Hodgins grinned.

She looked up at him. "Haven't you noticed that people smell like sex when they're getting some?"

"What, exactly, does sex smell like?"

"I don't know. Sweat, certain--bodily fluids, horniness..."

"Wow. You are always full of useful information like this, Ange."

"I may not be a genius on paper, but the guys that were in my college dorm thought I was one."

Hodgins kissed her forehead. "For future reference, that's a little TMI." He stole another kiss. "I love you by the way."

"I love you, too."

Angela watched as Hodgins walked out of her office, then she turned her attention back to the paper.

Cam walked in. "Anything?"

"Well--" Angela flipped through a stack of papers. "Twelve shopping lists, six Post-Its, and nine sheets of notebook paper, torn."

"Wait, twelve shopping lists?"

"Talk about super-organized, right? Basically nothing really suspicious, but this diary--" Angela pulled it from the stacks and opened it to a page that was book-marked. "THTSSJQQ YJS YMZWX. Some sort of code. I haven't found anything else with this code, but I'm feeding it through a deciphering program."

"Any luck?"

"No. Still running it. How about you? Any luck?"

"Approximately a hundred and thirty boxes and time's ticking away." Cam sat next to Angela. "Don't tell Booth, but I feel like we're shooting in the dark here."

"I totally understand. I mean, Booth, Bren and Hodgins have this personal vendetta against the Gravedigger. I mean, what if Tafett is it and that just freaks them out, knowing that the story ends there."

"The thing that worries me is that we could be just delaying Tafett's case. It's not out of the realm of possibility that Tafett hauled everyone to their graves. What if this is what she wants? To delay everything?"

"So she made everything look a little impossible for a single woman to do by her lonesome?"

"Exactly," Cam said. "If I were a psychopath serial kidnapper, I'd try my damndest to make it look like it wasn't my fault."

----

"Do you remember anything before you were tased?" Booth asked Brennan, keeping his eyes on the road.

"I was drugged, Booth. I don't really remember anything." She looked over at her partner. "You?"

"Last thing I remember is talking to you on the phone."

"We talked for a while."

"Hm?"

"I mean, do you remember the beginning of the conversation or the end? What do you remember saying last?"

Booth smiled. "I remember saying that I bet you looked beautiful."

An awkward silence began to grow.

"Then... you remember the end of the conversation. After that you heard a knock at the door so you hung up."

"How about you, Bones? What was the last thing you remember?"

"I remember my reflection."

"I'm sorry?"

"I remember looking at my reflection in the window of my car door. And that was it." She looked at Booth. "Hodgins remembers much less. But that's probably due to the injuries he sustained."

Without thinking, he reached up and touched the back of his neck.

"Does it still hurt?"

"Uh... no."

She reached up and touched the spot. Scar tissue was beginning to build over the burns.

Booth sucked in air. "Ow, Bones." He reached up and grabbed her hand, pulling it to his side and trapping it.

"You said it didn't hurt."

"Well, I lied."

"That isn't rational."

"It is rational, Bones. I just didn't want you to worry."

Brennan pulled her hand out from under his as they pulled up to 108 Arlington.


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